Word: gibe
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...week, Scholes and his wife moved to Switzerland, which was kinder to his bronchitis, and settled down to write a compendium for the common, or musically uneducated music lover. The famed Dr. Johnson waggishly defined a lexicographer as "a harmless drudge." Scholes makes no attempt to refute the gibe, in fact rather proudly points to some of his own drudgery; e.g., he meticulously checked numberless musical scores rather than reprint other men's findings, with the "minor" result that he explains and translates "probably a greater number of musical directions than that in any previous publication...
Cruelest of all was the gibe of G. K. Chesterton, who took the one poem in which Kipling approached beauty, Recessional, a prayer for humility under power, and made...
...paved with good intentions"; and he launched an attack on Eden's handling of the rail strike, then in its second week. When Laborites jeered at an Eden sally, Eden snapped: "The trouble with members opposite is that they all want-to be leaders at once." The gibe struck home, reducing the Labor benches to momentary glum silence...
...Most of the claims did not gibe with the general feeling among Council members," White said. "We are still not sure whether their representative's figures on attendance at games and the number of men who practice regularly are correct," he added...
...performance that suggested that he could go on forever. He tangled with Russian Foreign Minister Molotov,* scolded the U.S. for releasing the Yalta documents, then, in a workmanlike speech that glowed with grandeur and precision, slapped down a Labor attempt to censure his government. He allowed himself a gentle gibe at Laborite Clem Attlee and his followers: "I hope sincerely that the word 'followers' is the right word...